I would like to carry the cross staff
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| I would like to carry the cross staff | |
| BWV: | 56 |
| Occasion: | 19th Sunday after Trinity |
| Year of origin: | 1726 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | Solo cantata |
| Solo : | B. |
| Instruments : | 2Ob Ot 2Vl Va Bc |
| AD : | approx. 21 min |
| text | |
| Christoph Birkmann ; Johann Franck | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
I would like to carry the Kreuzstab ( BWV 56), also called Kreuzstabkantata , is a sacred solo cantata for bass by Johann Sebastian Bach .
Emergence
The cantata belongs to the third Leipzig cantatas year. Bach originally wrote it for the soprano part of his second wife Anna Magdalena on the 19th Sunday after Trinity , which fell on October 27 in the year 1726, when it was composed. The original score bears Bach's handwritten note Cantata à Voce Sola e Stromenti (cantata for solo voice and instruments). It is one of the few examples in which Bach himself uses the musical genre of the cantata in the autograph . In the years 1731–1732 he adapted the work for alto or bass voice . In the latter it is usually performed today.
Topic and structure
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The text, which comes from the Bach student and theologian Christoph Birkmann , makes indirect reference to the Gospel reading planned for this Sunday on the healing of the gouty ( Mt 9 : 1-8 EU ), which addresses the physical suffering and pain that accompany life and the the believer endures in the hope of redemption from the ailments at the end of the path of life. Based on the first verse of the reading: "There he (Jesus) stepped into the ship and drove over again and came to his city" ( Mt 9,1 EU ) the life path in the text of the first recitative is compared with a journey by ship, with the cello symbolizes the wave movement. The longing for the hereafter associated with the end of the path is expressed by the concluding chorale Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder , which is based on the sixth stanza of the hymn "Du, o beautiful world building" by Johann Franck from 1653 and again the portrait of life as shipping.
The work is strongly oriented towards the text and develops the musical ideas accordingly. Bach identifies individual words in the libretto with certain stylistic devices. For example, the C sharp on 'Kreuzstab' ( spelled out as X stab in Bach's autograph ) is achieved through the dissonance of an excessive second , and the word 'wear' sounds with a motif of sighs in the voice. The passage Da I lay the grief all at once in the grave , which is taken up again in the concluding recitative, catches the eye metrically with sudden triplets, and at the same time reproduces the sighs heard earlier in the oboes. Together with the descending sext on the word 'grave', this was both intuitively and analytically interpreted as an expression of longing for death.
The passage in the following recitative , 'My change in the world is like a boat trip', is illustrated by Bach in a cello with a motif that is modeled on the wave movement of water. When, towards the end of the recitative, the wanderer steps out of the ship and into my place , this motif ends and changes harmoniously to major. The following dance bass aria celebrates in B flat major 'My yoke will finally have to leave me again' . The cantata closes with the chorale 'Komm o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder' , which at first glance seems simple. However, Bach sets Johann Crüger's melody to music in the four-part choral setting extremely artistically. The first word Komm starts syncopated on the second beat. The psychologist and gerontologist Andreas Kruse compares this chorale with the final chorale Oh Lord, let your dear Engelein from Bach's St. John Passion and sees in both cases “an impressive composure, which is due to the certainty that death marks a conclusion, but at the same time also the starting point of eternal life. "
occupation
- Bass solo, four-part choir in the final chorale verse
- Orchestra: oboe I / II, waist (low oboe), violin I / II, viola , basso continuo . Except for one oboe solo in an aria, the oboes go colla parte with the strings .
Impact history
At the end of Robert Schneider's novel Schlafes Bruder , the protagonist Johannes Elias Alder improvises the final chorale 'Komm o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder' in a moving way on the organ and makes the decision to end his life himself.
Recordings (selection)
Along with the other two bass solo cantatas BWV 82 and BWV 158, the cantata is one of the best-known cantatas and is accordingly frequently recorded.
- CD
- Cantatas BWV 55 , BWV 56, BWV 98 , BWV 180 . Dominik Wörner , La Petite Bande , head of Sigiswald Kuijken . Accent (Vol. 1).
- Cantates pour basses BWV 56, BWV 82, BWV 158. Peter Kooij , La Chapelle Royale , Philippe Herreweghe . Harmonia Mundi France.
- Solo cantatas for bass BWV 82 , BWV 158 , BWV 56, BWV 203 . Dominik Wörner, il Gardellino , director of Ryo Terakado . Passacaille, 2013.
- Cantatas “I would like to carry the cross staff” BWV 56, “I've had enough” BWV 82. Max van Egmond , Baroque Orchestra, Frans Brüggen . Seon / Sony, 1977.
- DVD
- I would like to carry the cross staff. Cantata BWV 56. Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Klaus Mertens . Including an introductory workshop and reflection by Oswald Oelz . Gallus Media, 2015.
literature
- Alfred Dürr: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3 .
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas by JS Bach. 1947, 5th edition 1984, ISBN 3-7651-0054-4 .
- Hans-Joachim Schulze: The Bach Cantatas: Introductions to all of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas. Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig / Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, (Edition Bach-Archiv Leipzig) ISBN 3-374-02390-8 (Evang. Verl.-Anst.), ISBN 3-89948-073-2 (Carus- Verl.)
- Christoph Wolff, Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4 .
- Christine Blanken: A Cantata-Text Cycle of 1728 from Nuremberg: a Preliminary Report on a Discovery relating to JS Bach's so-called 'Third Annual Cantata Cycle'. In: Understanding Bach , 10/2015, pp. 9–30, especially p. 22.
Web links
- Materials for the cantata BWV 56 at Bach Digital of the Bach Archive Leipzig
- Structure and complete text of Cantata BWV 56 at the University of Alberta
- Cantata BWV 56 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anreas Kruse: The border crossings of Johann Sebastian Bach: Psychological Insights Springer-Verlag, 2014. p 239-240. Online partial view
- ↑ Product information ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the JS Bach Foundation, accessed on April 30, 2015.
